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·September 8, 2025·2 min read

Aggression Is Contagious: Observing Violence Primes the Brain for Aggression

A new study shows that observing violence can make individuals more likely to act aggressively later, but the effect depends on familiarity. Male mice who watched familiar peers attack others became more violent afterward, driven by amygdala neurons that “prime” aggression.

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·September 8, 2025·2 min read

Your Red Is My Red: Shared Brain Codes for Color

Human brains share common patterns of activity when perceiving colors, suggesting universal neural coding of color. Researchers compared brain responses from one group of participants to predict what colors another group was viewing, finding high accuracy in decoding both color and brightness.

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·September 8, 2025·3 min read

How Teens and Adults Really Change Language

For decades, scholars believed children’s speech errors were the seeds of language change, but new research challenges that view. The study argues that everyday language use among adolescents and adults, not children, is the real driver of linguistic evolution.

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·September 8, 2025·5 min read

Prosthetic Hand Restores Real Sense of Touch

A next-generation neuroprosthetic hand that restores a sense of touch is moving into a pivotal home-use clinical trial. The “iSens” system uses implanted electrodes to read muscle intent and stimulate nerves, relaying fingertip sensations to the brain so the prosthesis feels embodied.

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·September 7, 2025·6 min read

Artificial Sweeteners Tied to Faster Cognitive Decline

A large study of nearly 13,000 adults found that consuming high levels of certain artificial sweeteners is linked to faster declines in memory and thinking over eight years. The effect was particularly strong in people with diabetes and those under 60. Some sweeteners, like aspartame and saccharin, were strongly associated with decline, while tagatose was not.

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·September 6, 2025·8 min read

Air Pollution Linked to Toxic Protein Clumps Driving Lewy Body Dementia

A new study reveals a molecular link between fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) and Lewy body dementia, a devastating neurodegenerative condition. By combining human epidemiological data and animal experiments, researchers showed that PM2.5 exposure triggers toxic clumps of alpha-synuclein in the brain, similar to those seen in patients.

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·September 6, 2025·5 min read

Breast Milk Has a Built-In Body Clock for Babies

Breast milk is more than nourishment—it delivers circadian cues that may shape infant sleep, immunity, and metabolism. Researchers analyzing milk samples found that melatonin peaked at night and cortisol in the early morning, while other immune-related proteins remained steady.

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·September 5, 2025·6 min read

Brain Structure Differences in Children with ADHD Discovered

Researchers tested a new MRI correction method, called the traveling-subject (TS) approach, to resolve inconsistencies in ADHD brain imaging results. By scanning the same healthy subjects across multiple MRI machines, they identified and corrected for measurement biases, producing more reliable data.

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·September 5, 2025·4 min read

Environment Shapes Autism-Linked Social Behaviors

A new study shows that environment significantly affects social behavior in zebrafish carrying a mutation linked to autism. In stressful, white Styrofoam tanks, the fish displayed higher anxiety and less social contact, while in familiar Plexiglass tanks their sociability improved.

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·September 4, 2025·8 min read

Dietary Intervention Could Slow Deadly Brain Cancer Growth

A new study reveals that glioblastoma, the most aggressive brain cancer, thrives by using sugar in unique ways that differ from healthy brain cells. While normal brain tissue channels sugar into energy and neurotransmitters, glioblastoma cells divert it into producing DNA and RNA, fueling relentless tumor growth.

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·September 4, 2025·4 min read

Metal–Organic Framework Neurons Mimic Brain Signals with Dopamine

Researchers have developed the first metal–organic framework (MOF) neuron that mimics brain-like behavior in aqueous environments by responding to dopamine. Unlike traditional solid-state devices, this MOF neuron reproduces key neural functions such as synaptic plasticity, integrate-and-fire signaling, and dopamine-tuned spike modulation.

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·September 4, 2025·5 min read

Autism Gene Found to Alter Brain’s Social Hormone Signals

A new study reveals how a mutation in the Shank3 gene, associated with autism, alters social behavior by disrupting vasopressin release in the brain. In mice, this mutation reduced sociability and defensive aggression by limiting vasopressin reaching the lateral septum.